Bonkers Blog July 2015

While I have been bogged down in park matters of both
the wet and
dry variety
Bexley council has been issuing press releases.

Ward boundaries
It has been
in the newspapers in recent days that Bexley council has decided
that 45 will be the optimum number of councillors from 2018 onwards and has
submitted its reasoning to the Boundaries Commission.

The Commission is expected to give its own ideas on numbers next month.

Make the motorists pay!
Bexley is to try to remedy its
estimated £230,000 losses on CCTV parking
enforcement by turning its attention to moving traffic offences. It’s only three
months since Teresa O’Neill stood in the council chamber to assure the gullible
that although the council had taken the powers there was no decision to actually
use them. Given the lead times in introducing such changes it is difficult not
to assume it was an attempt to deceive residents.

If it is well signed and people have their wits about them it is unlikely to
raise much money, but the attempt to fleece motorists via a new method begins on 1st August.

Bexleyheath Broadway
More Broadway disruption begins on Monday 10th August. It’s an extension of the
more central broken block scheme to the western end of Broadway as far as Lion Road. Well it needs
smartening up but I thought we had no money. Oh, it’s Boris’ money. That’s free money isn’t it?
Nobody actually pays.